Satisfies General Education requirement:
Yes

Grading options:
A-F (default), P-NP, audit

Repeats available for credit: 0

Approved delivery mode:
Face-to-Face, Hybrid, Online

Prerequisites

Course Description

Introduces the literature of the land which is now the U.S.A. from the mid-1800s to the present. Revolves around the written manifestations of the various people creating and describing American culture. Considers various forms including canonized and non-canonized writing (fiction, letters, diaries, poetry and more.) Prerequisites: WR 115 and RD 115 or equivalent placement test scores. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes

Upon successful completion students should be able to:

Identify and discuss strengths, limitations and cultural assumptions of the various literary forms practiced in America from the mid-1800s to the present day.

Identify and discuss the roles of gender, class, race, ethnicity, and geography play in creating American literature.

Identify and address the issues, conflicts, preoccupations, and themes of American literature.

Use literary texts to examine the historical, rhetorical, and cultural contexts in which they were, and are, composed.

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